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According to This previous posting of mine, I had set aside 270MiB of RAM, just in case the kernel needed it, on the computer I name ‘Phoenix’, to keep track of user-space programs, watching files and directories. I had also taken A Quick Glance at the way 64-bit kernel, virtual memory is organized under Linux, differently from how 32-bit virtual addresses were. Given the additional fact, that I only want to set aside 128MiB of user-space RAM, To cache my blog’s Web-pages, I decided that the earlier amount of kernel-memory was too large.

And so now I’ve reduced the amount, for ‘INotify’, to a mere 135MiB.

This computer has 4GiB total RAM.

Elaboration:

On 32-bit systems, the entire address space only had 4GB, but under no circumstances was the kernel expected to take up more than 1 GB. The computer ‘Phoenix’ is a 64-bit system, but one which only has 4GB of physical RAM. Therefore, even though it’s a 64-bit system, its kernel should still not take up more than 1GB. Yet, if I preallocate 270MB, just to perform one task, I’m pushing this system’s kernel closer to using up 1GB for real. So just for this one task, I’ve reduced this one commitment to 135MB.